Necticut



F. R. WHITE.

BUTTON.

APPucmou manna. 11.1919;

INI/ENTOR EMM/111 White.

, M# HMV Patented Dee. 9, 1919.

lil STAE TENT enrich.

FRNKLN "WHTE, OF WATERBUR, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR- TG THE PATENT BUTTON CMPANY, OF CGNNETICUT, ik CORPORATION F CGN- Tov all 'whom t may concern: Y

i;e it known thatl l, FRANKLIN R. VHITE,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident of l/Vaterbury, in the county of N ew Haven andV State of Connecticut, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a specification.`

button and above said anchor and in which `a top plate is placedover the body of the button to tightly hold the anchor and anvil in place and complete the button.

VThe purpose of placing an anvilin the button is so that the top plate will not be perforated or marred by the passage ofthe tack intol the button, and the purpose of the `anchor is to provide another point of con` tact with the tack and to more rigidly hold the button against the cloth `than would be *possiblerif the tack simply perforated the Vbase plate. VThis invention is also similar to a button for which an application `for U. S. Letters Patent has been executed by me of even date herewith.

An objectof the' present invention is to provide a button which may be cheaply manufactured, easily assembled, and which will be held tightly in placeafter the button is secured to the cloth.

Another object of my invention is to provide a novel form of anchor so that the tack will be held in its uprightV position after piercing the base plate even should it tend to deflectafter it perforates the base plate.

Still another object of my invention is to so construct the anchor that it will bear against the anvil and thereby prevent the Vsame from rattling or shaking in the button, and to so construct the anchor that when the button is assembled the same will be forced snugly and tightly into the shell of the button.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a sectional View, and partly `in elevation, of the button, cloth and tack before the same.V

are assembled; Y

Fig. 2 1s a similar view, the button and Nncrrcur.

. BUTTON.

rsa-ieee. specimenofteaersraeni. `Parenteel nee. e, 1am.

Applcationiled April i2, 1919. Serial No. 289,626.

i "tack, however, in thisnstance being in their seen that the button consists of the body portion l with a downwardly extending hub 2 in the form of a hollow shell, the upper partof the body portion being flared outwardly as at 13. lResting within the body portion is acircular anvil plate l to deflect the point of a tack 5 after piercing the base plate of the button.

Before this tack 5, however, is deflected, it must pierce an anchor 6 which is formed with a central impression 7 which is similar to an impression 8 formed in the bottom 9 of the hub 2. This anchor ispreferably stamped from a thin ribbon of steel and is .similar in contour to the hub of the button, `but when vstamped from the ribbon it is stamped with the upper outline being practically 1n the form of a' square in plan with the centers slightly cut out as at l1, which `provides the spring arms 12. These arms l2V extend slightly upwardly, so that when this anchor is rst placed in the hub of the button the arms 12 will not lie flat in the button but extend slightly upwardly and contact with the anvil'll. These arms, beingofsteel, will have a certain amount of spring and resiliency.,` A top plate l0 is provided which isv forced on and tightly clamps: the aredportion 3 of the button; also the anvil will compress the resilient spring arms l2 and this constant compression of the spring arms againstthe anvil will hold the anvil against the top plate, thereby preventing any rattling 0f the anvil in the button. l

By providing the central impression 8 in fia should become defiected after piercing the bottom of the button,` which often happens in buttons of a somewhat similar type, the poi-nt again will be correctly alined by the side walls of the impression 7 in the anchor G, so that the tack after piercing the central impression S of1 the bottom"9' andthe central impression 7 of the anchor 6, will be in a correct vertical position. The point vwill then impinge against the anvil 4 and be jammed or forced downwardly over the upper surface of the anchor G, also tightly holding the anchor and complete button in position, the .end of the tackV extending over into theanchor.

In Fig. 6 there is shown a modification of the anchor, in this instance it being simi- -lar to the anchor shown in Fig. el, with the Vexception that it is not provided with the outwardly extending arms 12v but simply comprises the hollow shell 13, with the side walls 14 and the central impression 15.

From the foregoing it will be seen that l haveprovided `a button which is relatively cheap to manufacture; which has a plurality of points of contact with the tack, which contacts are in a yspaced relation from each other, Athereby rigidly securing the button to the cloth ,and 1 have also provided a button wherein the tacli will be correctly alined throughout its entire 'movement both through the base' plate and through the anchor until it yfinally impiiiges against the 'anvil and is deflected over the upper surface of the anchor, andalso by formingv .the anchor'as shown, with the resilient spring arms, the same is always in its correctV place,

*cannot* be drawn down by the rivet when the button is -being fastened tothe cloth; and, furthermore, theanvil will be held up! by "the spring'arinslQ against the top plate,

thereby preventing' any rattling of the anvil in the-button. p 4

Having thus described and explained my invention, I claim4 as new anddesire to se- 'cure by' lLetters Patent:

1. Albrittoncomprising ka body portion having a hub in the form of a hollow shell,

and an iinperforate base plate with a cen trally formed impression; an annular anchor fitting within said hub portion, andthe base plate of which is a replica of the base plate of the hub portion; an anvil located above said anchorand a top plate wedgedly connected to said body portion.

2. A button comprising a body portion having a hub in the form of a hollow shell and an imperforate base plate, an indentation formed centrally of the `imperforate` base plate, and an anchor lilewise provided with an indentation in the bottom thereof and in direct alinement with the indentation formed in the base plate of the hollow hub; an anvil located in `the body port-icm of said button, and a top plate secured to said body portion after said anvil andV said anchor are in position. Y Y A 8. Ei button comprising a bodygportion having a hub with an imperforate base plate, an indentation formed centrally of said imperforate base plate, an anchor comprising a hub and an imperforate base plate with an y indentation in said base plate in alineinent with the indentation on the base plate of the body portion, and an anvil located in the body portion yof said button and fiXedly connected thereto.

@LA button comprising a body portion having a hub in the form yof a hollow shell and an iinperforate base plate with.. a centrally formed impiessiongan anchor'litting 

